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My pleasure my good friend!! PS. Hope you have got it sorted? PPS. I will be sticking with my Suzuki Swift until I pop my clogs!

The nurse with the big feet?? Be careful!

I have got the answer for you "macahoom" as there is an old Ford Prefect 100E going cheap not far from me and with this car you don't have to worry about the newfangled electrics, because it hardly has any! And just so that the battery lasts longer, the windscreen wipers are operated off the inlet manifold, and not the battery!!! Good luck old chap.

Thanks A D..............Xylo

Forgot to mention that I have downloaded a movie which seems to have slipped through the net and been released without fanfare, so to speak, because I've not seen mention of it anywhere, however it's called, "The Sound of Freedom" and stars Jim Caviezel, whom I've always liked, so I will watch that over the next few nights.

I watched, "A Haunting in Venice" a couple of nights ago and found it to be good, not exceedingly so, but good enough to keep my attention for the duration. Loosely based on the novel by Agatha Christie, it had all the twists and turns, plots and subplots associated with that particular writer, plus a few more added I think, to add to the mystery. Overall, pleased with it and IMO a good movie to pass a quiet evening.

Many thanks @recom273 and I will look out for it.

Well to be honest I got bored with it many years ago and it then became no more than a place to meet friends and to undertake an hour or so of people watching. Having said that there were a couple of bar owners I got to know and I occasionally popped in for a drink. As for your question re. bf and st; well I don't know as do not partake of those services!! OOPS......forgot that I did enjoy singing a few numbers in Red Hot, but as previously mentioned, not so now! PS. Comments on Taco Bell please, if you don't mind 🙂

Yes it has, so I thought I would chip in and give it my 10 pennyworth (or more)! As it happens I haven't been out to Bangla more than a handful of times over the last 2 to 3 months, mainly because I haven't really felt like it – – perhaps because I'm getting old. That aside, it has become distinctly "old hat" to me and a few of my friends, and as I am not one for sitting on a bar stool discussing nothing in particular, the whole place feels very boring. So an update here, as I see it: – the few times I have been out, I have eaten at Blue Beach Café and Restaurant as one is assured of good food and good service, by excellent wait staff, so it makes a good start to the evening. Although I have been past what was once my favourite venue to belt out a song or two, "Red Hot", I haven't had the inclination to go in, mainly because a couple of the band have left and I haven't seen the great lady singer Mayen there for a while, and she always helped me with the high notes on "Don't Stop Believing". To add to that a couple of friends who have been along have said that it is being populated by Russian folk, with the band adapting to the new clientele, by singing more Russian songs – – not for me thank you! Now a good place to sit and watch the world go by on Bangla, is what used to be Smiley Bar and is now Blue Lotus café, so I will have to give that a try as in days gone by it was a good spot for people watching. Soi Sansabai is certainly seeing a lot of activity with regards to new building/renovations going on, which makes it terribly crowded when trying to navigate a homeward path on the back of a motorbike taxi, because the building activity, new café's and restaurants and the inability of certain members of the human race to be able to keep to one side of the road, makes life very difficult. Further up in Soi Banzaan, the previously named "Canada House", now turned into a bar, is struggling for custom (who'd have thought it??), so the ladies working in the bar have taken to sitting on stools on the side of the road so that they can be seen by passers-by, which doesn't seem to have had much of an effect and I don't think I've ever seen one customer in there? Onto Nanai and the recently opened "Blue Sky" bar is about as popular as a rattlesnake in a lucky dip with customers. Further along, the long-awaited opening of the Italian restaurant "Verdi" (I think) happened a couple of weeks ago, but I have no idea if it is being frequented by customers or not, although on the few times I've driven by it doesn't seem to be busy in the slightest.......and that seems to be par for course in Nanai at the moment with the recently refurbished/reopened "Chang bar", almost opposite two other bars "Rock Bar and Long Time Bar" doing nothing much at all other than wasting electricity by being open! The same could be said for many other bars such as the "Thirsty Lizard" and the recently opened black bar called "Hurricane Rock Bar". However the lack of activity in Nanai has not stopped someone opening a new restaurant venture in south Nanai where two other restaurant ventures failed in quick succession and I think I noticed something about a "Fondue" when driving by so whether that's what they are serving or the name of it, I'm not sure? Traffic congestion seems to have eased somewhat what with the restriction caused by the roadworks/water works debacle, getting a little better, but it is still not fixed completely. There are another couple of reasons I'm not been out recently, one is that I seem to have acquired some sort of allergy, which often happens around this time of the year, and I wish I could find out what was causing it, because it makes me feel very tired and lethargic should I say, so staying in and watching a movie seems a good option with a good bottle of red (please don't tell me it's the red wine which is causing it because I wouldn't want to change the habit of a lifetime, well almost anyway). I'm hoping to get out to the restaurant called, "West" over the next week or so to sample their "Châteaubriand" as they call it, and being able to take a good bottle of my own wine along, helps tremendously. Either before or after that I will go to the Italian restaurant in Soi Patong Beach, "Amena e Core" which serves good Italian food, and lets me bring my good bottle of wine for a small surcharge. Something else I will add which has made me think just recently was that the last time I went out I noticed that the lady drinks were now 220 baht, and having visited an old friend whom I've known for probably 10 years, at one of the bars, just to catch up and have a chat, I was surprised at the price of these lady drinks, so for this particular woman I slipped her a few hundred baht "under the table" as well as buying her a couple of drinks. Having said that I'm afraid my days of buying thousands of baht's worth of drinks for the bar girls has long gone, because at one time you could have a conversation with them, but now not so much. I suppose that for someone like me who's been here for 17 years, it's only natural that the attraction of Bangla would wane somewhat, and it certainly has for me, and as I'm not one for sitting at a bar stool during the daytime, or really during the evening for that matter, more than say once a week, it's really to catch up with a friend or two, or to have a change from cooking my own food, and eating out – – luckily there are some nice restaurants around, a few more of which I have to try. Anyway, high season is approaching and so the hustle and bustle, toil and trouble will be upon us again soon.

Afraid it didn't work for me!

I have to say that the few times I have had some sort of fungal infection, terbinafine (not oral) has worked the best of all, despite trying just about every other antifungal on the market.

On that note, the small apartment block in which I stay, is currently drawing water from a very deep well, however I'm not sure how clean it is, so I bought this little filter contraption to go on the sink tap, which is where I draw water from for drinking and cooking. Wasn't sure if it was working well until the owner tested it with a little device and it appears it is working extremely well, so I can recommend it. (my version is the 8000E model).

Me also using 1337x.to........maybe it will drop into this soon?? Fingers crossed!

Someone mentioned that there was a new season, Season 3 of the marvellous, "Slow Horses" and I seem to recall something about Apple TV??? So do I have to have this to be able to watch it, or is it available elsewhere? Thank you in anticipation.

I agree with your comments and surely ETH is not long for that job, being someone who seems to regularly fall out with players and who cannot instil a pattern/plan for a team – – they are all individual players doing their own things, with very little in the way of teamwork. City on the other hand are the epitome of what good, intelligent, flowing football is all about; and I've been a United supporter since 1956, but credit where credit is due and I don't believe I've seen football as good as City are playing since the heydays of United and that was decades ago.

Mine too!

MAGA Mike states that school shootings are the fault of feminism. teaching evolution and divorce etc. He also suggests that sex outside of marriage should be banned. Yet, he is an avid supporter the twice divorced and 'grab 'em by the p*ssy' proven rapist. Jeez....you couldn't make this stuff up. Unbelievable.

Ah......owl sees all but knows nothing. That should be your tagline/strapline. What a load of nonsense spews forth from your beak.

Exactly where.......as I can't find it??

Just watched a movie called; "The Man in The Glass Booth" and it was very heavy going despite a standout performance by Maximillian Schell. Hard to fathom at first and gets harder to do after the halfway mark, but although the ending is not clear cut, one gets the gist of it at the end and it is intriguing to say the least.

Ironically Kermit would do a better job than trump.......so pleased that you owned up to that!!!

The guitar playing by LB was just phenonemal.......has to be the best around.

Very happy to do so........one more anti-vax conspiracy theorist whose nonsense i won't have to see.

Well I have sent a letter of apologies to the creator of the Muppets for bringing them down to your level, and I believe that misinformation is something employed by conspiracy theorists like you, so take what you will from that. No need to address anything that you have posted because most of it has been picked apart already and shown to be full of nonsense or half-truths, so why waste my time. So not wanting to stay involved with you and your anti-vax/conspiracy theory nonsense, I am pleased to be able to put you on IGNORE and just as I do this I have read a few posts a little further along and they confirm my suspicions that you're not worth wasting time on, and I'm not sure whether it was you or one of your other "friends" who has been described as a nutter, but then again if the cap fits, wear it.

I wondered how long it would be before the conspiracy theory muppets would get round to quoting the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, along with misinformation from various YouTube posters with dubious "qualifications", and now it's arrived, so I will take my leave from this thread because it has become a nonsense. Just to reiterate what I have said earlier; the mRNA vaccine has been worked on since the early 1960s and perfected in the 80s/90s and has and will be proven to be a potential godsend with regards to curing illness and diseases. Many tens of millions of people around the world have received this vaccination and many more will do so in years to come as it proves successful against other diseases such as cancer. It is in use currently and I see no reason why a thread like this should even exist because what the anti-vax/conspiracy theory muppets fail to realise is that the mRNA vaccination process is being used today and is here to stay. Thanks to all of the intelligent and levelheaded posters who do post on here, and as for the others, why not go and join the "flat earth society" for something else to occupy your time. Or you could rail against the fact that motor vehicles have replaced horses on the roads today........oh sorry that one has long gone!!!